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Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
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Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design

by Robert C. Martin
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 20m
English
Pearson
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11DIP: THE DEPENDENCY INVERSION PRINCIPLE

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The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) tells us that the most flexible systems are those in which source code dependencies refer only to abstractions, not to concretions.

In a statically typed language, like Java, this means that the use, import, and include statements should refer only to source modules containing interfaces, abstract classes, or some other kind of abstract declaration. Nothing concrete should be depended on.

The same rule applies for dynamically typed languages, like Ruby and Python. Source code dependencies should not refer to concrete modules. However, in these languages it is a ...

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ISBN: 9780134494272